WIDC not only showcases a wide range of locally sourced products and species, but serves as a repeatable and expandable template for constructing future tall wood buildings of different sizes and functions.

Innovative low energy technology enjoys the limelight at the University of British Columbia’s Campus Energy Centre (CEC). Designed as a “living lab” to showcase and communicate the building’s state-of-the-art systems, the facility is set to reduce this university’s carbon footprint by more than 20 per cent.

As a North American first, built to Passive House standards, this is a research lab that keenly demonstrates its purpose. The facility hosts the University of Northern British Columbia’s Master of Engineering in Integrated Wood Design, a curriculum that equips current and future industry professionals with cutting-edge expertise in sustainable wood design and construction.

The University of British Columbia’s Earth Sciences Building is one of North America’s largest panelized wood structure and home to its Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmosphere, the Department of Statistics, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the Pacific Museum of the Earth. It features a free-floating cantilevered solid timber staircase, one of the first of its kind in the world.

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